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java.lang.Objectorg.springframework.beans.factory.access.SingletonBeanFactoryLocator
public class SingletonBeanFactoryLocator
Keyed-singleton implementation of BeanFactoryLocator, which accesses shared Spring factory instances.
Please see the warning in BeanFactoryLocator's javadoc about appropriate usage of singleton style BeanFactoryLocator implementations. It is the opinion of the Spring team that the use of this class and similar classes is unnecessary except (sometimes) for a small amount of glue code. Excessive usage will lead to code that is more tightly coupled, and harder to modify or test.
In this implementation, a BeanFactory is built up from one or more XML
definition file fragments, accessed as resources. The default resource name
searched for is 'classpath*:beanRefFactory.xml', with the Spring-standard
'classpath*:' prefix ensuring that if the classpath contains multiple copies
of this file (perhaps one in each component jar) they will be combined. To
override the default resource name, instead of using the no-arg
getInstance()
method, use the getInstance(String selector)
variant, which will treat the 'selector' argument as the resource name to
search for.
The purpose of this 'outer' BeanFactory is to create and hold a copy of one or more 'inner' BeanFactory or ApplicationContext instances, and allow those to be obtained either directly or via an alias. As such, this class provides both singleton style access to one or more BeanFactories/ApplicationContexts, and also a level of indirection, allowing multiple pieces of code, which are not able to work in a Dependency Injection fashion, to refer to and use the same target BeanFactory/ApplicationContext instance(s), by different names.
Consider an example application scenario:
com.mycompany.myapp.util.applicationContext.xml
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ApplicationContext definition file which defines beans for 'util' layer.
com.mycompany.myapp.dataaccess-applicationContext.xml
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ApplicationContext definition file which defines beans for 'data access' layer.
Depends on the above.
com.mycompany.myapp.services.applicationContext.xml
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ApplicationContext definition file which defines beans for 'services' layer.
Depends on the above.
In an ideal scenario, these would be combined to create one ApplicationContext, or created as three hierarchical ApplicationContexts, by one piece of code somewhere at application startup (perhaps a Servlet filter), from which all other code in the application would flow, obtained as beans from the context(s). However when third party code enters into the picture, things can get problematic. If the third party code needs to create user classes, which should normally be obtained from a Spring BeanFactory/ApplicationContext, but can handle only newInstance() style object creation, then some extra work is required to actually access and use object from a BeanFactory/ApplicationContext. One solutions is to make the class created by the third party code be just a stub or proxy, which gets the real object from a BeanFactory/ApplicationContext, and delegates to it. However, it is is not normally workable for the stub to create the BeanFactory on each use, as depending on what is inside it, that can be an expensive operation. Additionally, there is a fairly tight coupling between the stub and the name of the definition resource for the BeanFactory/ApplicationContext. This is where SingletonBeanFactoryLocator comes in. The stub can obtain a SingletonBeanFactoryLocator instance, which is effectively a singleton, and ask it for an appropriate BeanFactory. A subsequent invocation (assuming the same class loader is involved) by the stub or another piece of code, will obtain the same instance. The simple aliasing mechanism allows the context to be asked for by a name which is appropriate for (or describes) the user. The deployer can match alias names to actual context names.
Another use of SingletonBeanFactoryLocator, is to demand-load/use one or more BeanFactories/ApplicationContexts. Because the definiiton can contain one of more BeanFactories/ApplicationContexts, which can be independent or in a hierarchy, if they are set to lazy-initialize, they will only be created when actually requested for use.
Given the above-mentioned three ApplicationContexts, consider the simplest
SingletonBeanFactoryLocator usage scenario, where there is only one single
beanRefFactory.xml
definition file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <list> <value>com/mycompany/myapp/util/applicationContext.xml</value> <value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess/applicationContext.xml</value> <value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess/services.xml</value> </list> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans>The client code is as simple as:
BeanFactoryLocator bfl = SingletonBeanFactoryLocator.getInstance(); BeanFactoryReference bf = bfl.useBeanFactory("com.mycompany.myapp"); // now use some bean from factory MyClass zed = bf.getFactory().getBean("mybean");Another relatively simple variation of the
beanRefFactory.xml
definition file could be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.util" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <value>com/mycompany/myapp/util/applicationContext.xml</value> </constructor-arg> </bean> <!-- child of above --> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.dataaccess" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <list><value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess/applicationContext.xml</value></list> </constructor-arg> <constructor-arg> <ref bean="com.mycompany.myapp.util"/> </constructor-arg> </bean> <!-- child of above --> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.services" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <list><value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess.services.xml</value></value> </constructor-arg> <constructor-arg> <ref bean="com.mycompany.myapp.dataaccess"/> </constructor-arg> </bean> <!-- define an alias --> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.mypackage" class="java.lang.String"> <constructor-arg> <value>com.mycompany.myapp.services</value> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans>
In this example, there is a hierarchy of three contexts created. The (potential) advantage is that if the lazy flag is set to true, a context will only be created if it's actually used. If there is some code that is only needed some of the time, this mechanism can save some resources. Additionally, an alias to the last context has been created. Aliases allow usage of the idiom where client code asks for a context with an id which represents the package or module the code is in, and the actual definition file(s) for the SingletonBeanFactoryLocator maps that id to a real context id.
A final example is more complex, with a beanRefFactory.xml
for every module.
All the files are automatically combined to create the final definition.
beanRefFactory.xml
file inside jar for util module:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.util" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <value>com/mycompany/myapp/util/applicationContext.xml</value> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans>
beanRefFactory.xml
file inside jar for data-access module:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <!-- child of util --> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.dataaccess" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <list><value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess/applicationContext.xml</value></list> </constructor-arg> <constructor-arg> <ref bean="com.mycompany.myapp.util"/> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans>
beanRefFactory.xml
file inside jar for services module:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <!-- child of data-access --> <bean id="com.mycompany.myapp.services" lazy-init="true" class="org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext"> <constructor-arg> <list><value>com/mycompany/myapp/dataaccess/services.xml</value></list> </constructor-arg> <constructor-arg> <ref bean="com.mycompany.myapp.dataaccess"/> </constructor-arg> </bean> </beans>
beanRefFactory.xml
file inside jar for mypackage module. This doesn't
create any of its own contexts, but allows the other ones to be referred to be
a name known to this module:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans_2_0.dtd"> <beans> <!-- define an alias for "com.mycompany.myapp.services" --> <alias name="com.mycompany.myapp.services" alias="com.mycompany.myapp.mypackage"/> </beans>
ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator
,
DefaultLocatorFactory
Field Summary | |
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protected static Log |
logger
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Constructor Summary | |
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protected |
SingletonBeanFactoryLocator()
Constructor which uses the default "beanRefFactory.xml", as the name of the definition file(s). |
protected |
SingletonBeanFactoryLocator(String resourceName)
Constructor which uses the the specified name as the name of the definition file(s). |
Method Summary | |
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protected BeanFactory |
createDefinition(String resourceName,
String factoryKey)
Actually creates definition in the form of a BeanFactory, given a resource name which supports standard Spring Resource prefixes ('classpath:', 'classpath*:', etc.) |
protected void |
destroyDefinition(BeanFactory groupDef,
String resourceName)
Destroy definition in separate method so subclass may work with other definition types. |
static BeanFactoryLocator |
getInstance()
Returns an instance which uses the default "classpath*:beanRefFactory.xml", as the name of the definition file(s). |
static BeanFactoryLocator |
getInstance(String selector)
Returns an instance which uses the the specified selector, as the name of the definition file(s). |
protected void |
initializeDefinition(BeanFactory groupDef)
Instantiate singletons and do any other normal initialization of the factory. |
BeanFactoryReference |
useBeanFactory(String factoryKey)
Use the BeanFactory (or derived
interface such as ApplicationContext )
specified by the factoryKey parameter. |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
Field Detail |
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protected static final Log logger
Constructor Detail |
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protected SingletonBeanFactoryLocator()
protected SingletonBeanFactoryLocator(String resourceName)
Method Detail |
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public static BeanFactoryLocator getInstance() throws FatalBeanException
FatalBeanException
public static BeanFactoryLocator getInstance(String selector) throws FatalBeanException
selector
- the name of the resource(s) which will be read and combine to
form the definition for the SingletonBeanFactoryLocator instance. The one file
or multiple fragments with this name must form a valid BeanFactory definition.
FatalBeanException
public BeanFactoryReference useBeanFactory(String factoryKey) throws BeansException
BeanFactoryLocator
BeanFactory
(or derived
interface such as ApplicationContext
)
specified by the factoryKey
parameter.
The definition is possibly loaded/created as needed.
useBeanFactory
in interface BeanFactoryLocator
factoryKey
- a resource name specifying which BeanFactory
the
BeanFactoryLocator
must return for usage. The actual meaning of the
resource name is specific to the implementation of BeanFactoryLocator
.
BeanFactory
instance, wrapped as a BeanFactoryReference
object
BeansException
- if there is an error loading or accessing the BeanFactory
protected BeanFactory createDefinition(String resourceName, String factoryKey) throws BeansException
This method should not instantiate any singletons. That function is performed
by initializeDefinition()
, which should also be
overridden if this method is.
BeansException
protected void initializeDefinition(BeanFactory groupDef) throws BeansException
createDefinition()
should
also override this method.
groupDef
- the factory returned by createDefinition()
BeansException
protected void destroyDefinition(BeanFactory groupDef, String resourceName) throws BeansException
BeansException
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